{"id":193152,"date":"2026-03-05T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/fast-food-chains-put-ai-to-work\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T14:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:50:16","slug":"fast-food-chains-put-ai-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/fast-food-chains-put-ai-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Food Chains Put AI to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/fast-food-chains-put-ai-to-work\/\">Fast Food Chains Put AI to Work<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/fast-food-chains-put-ai-to-work\/\">https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/fast-food-chains-put-ai-to-work\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-05 14:38:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pymnts.com\">www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Aggressive AI Adoption<\/strong>: Quick-service restaurants have become one of the most aggressive adopters of AI, using it to enhance loyalty programs, improve employee workflows, and manage costs, with 80% of restaurant executives planning to increase AI spending in the next fiscal year.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Efficiency and Strategic Priority<\/strong>: The adoption of AI is a strategic priority for the restaurant industry, which is facing declining sales and lower traffic. This efficiency-focused investment aims to improve operations across thousands of locations.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Applications of AI<\/strong>: Major restaurant brands are leveraging AI in various areas such as ordering, marketing, supply chain management, and labor planning to achieve greater operational precision.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Drive-Thru AI Innovations<\/strong>: AI has most visibly transformed drive-thru operations with voice systems handling customer orders. For example, Yum! Brands has used its AI system to handle over 2 million drive-thru orders, and is expanding this technology across restaurant operations.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Kitchen Automation<\/strong>: Automation is extending deep into food preparation. Chipotle is utilizing AI and machine learning for demand forecasting and has developed the robotic Autocado for automating avocado cutting.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Operational Decision-Making<\/strong>: The next stage of AI adoption is moving towards operational decision-making. Tools like Yum Brand\u2019s Byte AI Restaurant Coach support store managers by analyzing data and providing recommendations on staffing, scheduling, and performance.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Advanced Management Systems<\/strong>: In China, Yum China is pioneering advanced AI management systems like Q-Smart, which allows restaurant managers to control operations through voice commands and smart devices, aiding in labor scheduling and inventory management.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast Food Chains Put AI to Work https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/fast-food-chains-put-ai-to-work\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-05 14:38:00 Source Domain: www.pymnts.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Fast-food-AI-restaurants.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193154,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193152\/revisions\/193154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}